Judie Brown: "Peace: what does it really mean?"

---

 

Judie Brown

Peace: what does it really mean?

Judie Brown
October 13, 2009

The announcement this past Friday that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize created quite a stir in the media, within divergent political circles and around the pro-life movement as well.

Heroic Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League http://prolifeaction.org/was interviewed by LifeSiteNews.com. He said,http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09100901.html

It cheapens the award to the point that it means nothing, it's just a token. He hasn't done a thing except talk. ... So it demeans the prize to the point that it has no significance. And it's a shame because it belittles all those people that went before.

When I think of peace and Obama, two things stand out as being incongruous. I remember the words spoken by Mother Teresa upon receiving her Nobel Prize. In her acceptance speech, she said a great deal about genuine peace and those things that negate true peace. One memorable line was this: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html "the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing — direct murder by the mother herself."

To read the article, click here:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/091013